Harry Augustus Garfield
American lawyer and academic (1863-1942)
Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942) was an American lawyer, academic, and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I. He was a son of President James A. Garfield.
Early life
Harry Augustus Garfield was born on October 11, 1863, in Hiram, Ohio, to future President (then General in the Union Army) James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. His mother named him in May 1864 after two of James Garfield's friends. His father called him "little Chickamauga" because he was born shortly after the Battle of Chickamauga. He went by the nickname of "Hal".
Garfield attended public school, a private academy and was tutored at home. In 1876 the family moved to what is now the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio, and in 1879 he was sent to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. At the beginning of his final year at St.
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